 | Mary Poovey - Mathematics - 1998 - 450 pages
...but its terms immediately become ethical: "The I ahie, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other diings, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power: and therefore it is not absolute; but a thing dependant on the need andjudgnient of another" (Leviathan, 1 5 1 ).... | |
 | Donatella Della Porta, Alberto Vannucci - Political Science - 1999 - 332 pages
...acquires a sort of "symbolic " connotation. As Hobbes observed: The Value or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so...would be given for the use of his Power: and therefore is not absolute; but a thing dependant on the need and judgment of another. . . . And as in other things,... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2000 - 456 pages
...by the debasement of the currency. He does not make any attempt to discuss the question of prices. He speaks, indeed, in one place of "the value or worth...another," adding that: "As in other things, so in men, not the seller but the buyer determines the price. For let men, as most men do, rate themselves at... | |
 | Andrea Lynne Finkelstein - Business & Economics - 2009 - 392 pages
...of contract rather than commutative or distributive justice. 19 The Value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so...would be given for the use of his power: and therefore is not absolute, but a thing dependent on the need and judgement of another. An able conductor of Souldiers,... | |
 | Neil Roughley - Philosophy - 2000 - 444 pages
...Object is to every man his own Good" (Lev. I, xv; 83) or that "the Value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power" (Lev., I, x; 50), he did not think that he was just recommending a way of looking at things which might... | |
 | Lawrence Busch - Social Science - 236 pages
...determined by the marketplace, over which he has little or no control: "The Value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power" (Hobbes [1651] 1991:63). As a worker he cedes his rights to the corporate Leviathan — the corporate... | |
 | Nigel Warburton, Jonathan E. Pike, Derek Matravers - Philosophy - 2000 - 416 pages
...to imply each other. Both are summed up in Hobbes's statement: The Value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power ...'Li By adding propositions 4 and 5, which are based on his observation of society, to the earlier... | |
 | Harry Berger - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 292 pages
...chapter of Leviathan, which Hobbes devoted to a discussion of honor: The value, or WORTH of a man, is ... his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power: and therefore is not absolute; but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another. . . . And as in other things,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - United Kingdom, Great Britain - 1996 - 628 pages
...the Mother,) as his issue. The Value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; Worth. that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power: and therefore is not absolute; but a thing dependant on the need and judgement of another. An able conductor of Souldiers,... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...of 'bourgeois' polity Hobbes outlines and Venice exemplifies: "The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things his Price; that is to say, so...would be given for the use of his Power: and therefore is not absolute; but a thing dependant on the need and judgment of another. An able conductor of Souldiers,... | |
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value," or ' worth,' of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power; and therefore is not absolute, but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another. 
